The city plans to appeal the ruling to rehire Tibor Kovacs, who was fired three years ago after being accused of sexually assaulting his girlfriend and interfering with the investigation. (By Elizabeth Campbell)

A police report states the truck had a malfunctioning transmission and broken parking brake handle, prompting workers to use a metal wire to disengage the brakes while standing outside the vehicle. (By Deanna Boyd)

A 23-year-old accomplice of Evan Ebel, the prison parolee suspected of killing the director of Colorado’s prisons before being fatally wounded in a shootout in Wise County, was sentenced Monday to more than two years in prison for buying a handgun for him. (By The Associaed Press)

February 20, 2014

A man died around 8:57 p.m. Thursday in an auto-pedestrian wreck in the 6200 block of Interstate 35W in south Fort Worth.

Here's a statement from Fort Worth Police Capt. Shawn Stone:

"South Division officers responded to a fatality auto pedestrian accident in the 6200 block of the South Freeway on the south bound service road in front of Club Ice. An unidentified male was struck and killed by a driver in a passenger vehicle. The driver remained on the scene. From the preliminary details, the deceased was walking in the right lane of the service road and was struck by the right front portion of the passenger vehicle."

November 13, 2012

A man was in a hospital late Tuesday with broken bones and internal injuries after being hit on Fort Worth’s east side by a pickup that had been reported stolen.

The man, whose name was not released, was struck about 9 p.m. at a bus stop in the 2200 block of Handley Drive, according to a police report. The area is northeast of the intersection of East Loop 820 and Meadowbrook Drive.

A pickup matching that description was later found disabled, about a quarter of a mile away, with a flat tire. a broken side mirror and missing parts that were found scattered at the bus stop, Rodricks said.

A man had reported to police that a similar truck was stolen earlier in a carjacking, Rodricks said.

October 26, 2012

A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy struck and killed a man who may have been hitch hiking, shortly after midnight Friday on U.S. 67 in Keene.

The man was identified as Rufus Wilson, 57, of Cleburne, by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office, where he was taken after the crash.

Wilson had been standing in the roadway when he was struck by the 2009 Dodge Charger patrol car driven by Deputy A. Jones, according to a report from the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol.

The deputy was traveling northeast on the highway when Wilson was struck, the report stated.

Keene police and the sheriff’s department were in the area in response to a report of a hitch hiker waving his arms at passing motorists, according to a report by WFAA.com.

The website also reported that Sheriff Bob Alford called the incident an unfortunate accident and sent condolences to Wilson’s family.